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German elections 2017: full results

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Angela Merkel has secured a fourth term as German chancellor after Sunday’s election for a new Bundestag, the federal parliament. However, her authority has been diminished. Meanwhile, the radical rightwing AfD has entered parliament as the third-largest party. We analyse the official results.

Provisional result

299 of 299 constituencies declared
CDU/CSU
SPD
Die Linke
Grüne
FDP
AfD
50% of seats
% of
votes
+/- %
% of
seats*
CDU/CSU
Conservatives
32.9
-8.6
34.7
SPD
Social democrats
20.5
-5.2
21.6
Die Linke
Radical left
9.2
+0.6
9.7
Grüne
Greens
8.9
+0.5
9.4
FDP
Pro-business
10.7
+6
11.3
AfD
Populist right
12.6
+7.9
13.3
* Guardian calculation. Parties with less than 5% vote share do not normally get seats in parliament. The final official calculation of seats is complex and may take several days, but in principle is closely proportional to a party's share of the list vote or zweitstimme.

Possible coalitions

50% of seats
CDU/CSU-SPD
CDU/CSU-Green
CDU/CSU-Green-FDP
CDU/CSU-FDP
SPD-Linke-Green
Electoral arithmetic in 2013 forced Angela Merkel into a grand coalition with the second-biggest party, the SPD social democrats. This time she may have one other option, a 'Jamaican flag coalition' of the CDU, centre-right liberals the FDP, and the Greens.

Constituency seats won by party

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The constituency seats are not decisive in the formation of a government but serve as an indicator of which party is strongest in a given constituency. Remarkably, the AfD won three 'direct mandate' seats in Saxony.

SPD share of vote

40%+
30+
20+
< 20

The SPD had been losing support and expected to do badly, but the scale of its decline was a shock. The party has said it will return to opposition and try to rebuild its base.

AfD share of vote

20%+
10+
5+
< 5

The AfD, anti-immigrant Eurosceptics analogous to Britain's Ukip, narrowly failed to clear the 5% hurdle for parliamentary representation last time. This time they were the third biggest party, with support strongest in the east and south.

CDU/CSU share of vote

60%+
50+
40+
< 40

Although once again the biggest party, Angela Merkel's CDU (CSU in Bavaria) did surprisingly badly. Abandoned by their erstwhile coalition partners, they will now struggle to form a new government.

Source: German Federal Returning Officer
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